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re: It feels like TV prices are on a race to the bottom.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 4:29 pm to OysterPoBoy
Posted on 1/23/25 at 4:29 pm to OysterPoBoy
TVs, pizza and weed are basically the three things that haven't gotten more expensive over the years.
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Posted on 1/23/25 at 4:29 pm to OysterPoBoy
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What is going on in this market?
Posted on 1/23/25 at 4:34 pm to DiamondDog
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Off the shelf top of line TV been around $2,000-$2,500 since about 2000
Nah. Plasma TVs were top of the line around 2000 and were way more than that
Remember Michael's Plasma on The Office?
Posted on 1/23/25 at 4:50 pm to Palomitz
"The iPhone 15 is Apple's latest phone and comes in various iterations as previous models have. The iPhone 15 Pro, depending on storage size, costs between $999 and $1499. It's quite a hefty price tag, especially when it's estimated that the actual cost of all the components to make the phone amounts to approximately $558."
Cost of Making an iPhone
I'm not sure if OS development and other R&D are factored into this price. Marketing isn't.
Cost of Making an iPhone
I'm not sure if OS development and other R&D are factored into this price. Marketing isn't.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 4:52 pm to The Baker
my buddy got a 100-inch black Friday for $999 at Costco and it's amazing.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 5:32 pm to OysterPoBoy
From what I understand, OLED's are the best looking and they are still a bit pricey compared to standard LED tv's.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 5:40 pm to OysterPoBoy
I remember paying $400 for a DVD player when they were new.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 6:06 pm to fallguy_1978
OLED prices are still high. Hopefully they come down in the next year or so.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 6:16 pm to jizzle6609
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Your phone will be able to do everything in the future.
Projection, etc. 3D, 4D.
time to load up on MVIS
Posted on 1/23/25 at 6:50 pm to OysterPoBoy
If you are old enough to remember the price history of the calculator, then you know this is just the natural progression of the price of technology products.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 6:55 pm to UAinSOUTHAL
Yeah you can get a 60” tv for $300 or you can get a good 60” tv for $1500.
Most of the market just wants the biggest piece of shite they can find and are perfectly happy with it.
Most of the market just wants the biggest piece of shite they can find and are perfectly happy with it.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 6:55 pm to OysterPoBoy
Posted on 1/23/25 at 10:52 pm to Dicky
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Yeah you can get a 60” tv for $300 or you can get a good 60” tv for $1500.
My 75" ONN is a champ for around $600.TV's have become disposal items almost.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 11:08 pm to Guess
im also older and I remember when my dad bought a big arse Curtis Mathis TV. That thing was huge. He also came home with a new truck one day and my mom was like really?
Posted on 1/23/25 at 11:51 pm to OysterPoBoy
I got mine for free at Target in Minnesota in 2020.
Posted on 1/24/25 at 12:10 am to shutterspeed
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That's kind of the story of technology, though, isn't it? They're definitely not overinvesting in long-term builds these days.
Pretty much. Its like DVD players. There was a time before streaming even took off that you could buy a DVD player for little cost. I remember being at someone's house when I watched something on DVD and I thought it was amazing because it was so clear and you didn't have to rewind and there was bonus material on DVDs and at the time even the low end DVD players were relatively expensive. Then all of a sudden the prices became reasonable then only got cheaper and cheaper.
Before smart phones I remember one I was due for an upgrade and I got the latest version available for next to nothing. I was pumped. A new cell phone with some new features that I think the cost went on my cell phone bill. After the first 3 months it was paid off... About a month later a new version came out.. Which then made sense as to why my upgrade was cheap.
When something new is coming out they start trying to get rid as much of the old product as possible.
Posted on 1/24/25 at 3:00 am to OysterPoBoy
A combination of things make things so cheap for televisions. One factor is maturing technology to build panels as fast as possible is churning out millions of displays each year. Some processes are probably out of royalty of patent or licensing requirements to build these things enabling factories to make panels even more cheaply. Now the newer processes or licensing for 8k panels, higher contrast, quad color processing, and ATSC 3.0 tuners, make these more expensive and high end. The clusterfrick with ATSC 3.0 turners on all sides from certain broadcasters using encryption on OTA channels, to licensing patents for the signal decoding, broadcasters not transmitting in 4k, but strapping that signal to an internet backhaul, and other quirks are ensuring that ATSC 3.0 tuners are only added to higher end TV’s.
The other thing and probably the big reason has to be the data that these TV’s can sell out to third parties like your YouTube history, Hulu history, and OTA or cable TV watch patterns. Each TV could be sold for a loss and the money is made back up with either this data or even sales of subscriptions to their apps or 3rd parties like YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, etc. which is why you can get so many trial offers with a new TV.
The last thing has to with breakage, these units can be so cheap that anytime one breaks it is cheaper to replace that deal with the repair process and cost. By the time you pay someone 100-200 dollars an hour plus travel time to come to your home diagnose the issue, and come back to fix it, you could have just bought another one for the same price.
The other thing and probably the big reason has to be the data that these TV’s can sell out to third parties like your YouTube history, Hulu history, and OTA or cable TV watch patterns. Each TV could be sold for a loss and the money is made back up with either this data or even sales of subscriptions to their apps or 3rd parties like YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, etc. which is why you can get so many trial offers with a new TV.
The last thing has to with breakage, these units can be so cheap that anytime one breaks it is cheaper to replace that deal with the repair process and cost. By the time you pay someone 100-200 dollars an hour plus travel time to come to your home diagnose the issue, and come back to fix it, you could have just bought another one for the same price.
Posted on 1/24/25 at 4:36 am to fallguy_1978
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I remember paying $400 for a DVD player when they were new.
That’s what made the ps2 such a hit, it was both a dvd player and game console for cheaper. It’s original msrp was $299
This post was edited on 1/24/25 at 4:37 am
Posted on 1/24/25 at 8:13 am to DiamondDog
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Off the shelf top of line TV been around $2,000-$2,500 since about 2000
True but you get more bang for your buck now. A 2,000 dollar tv in 2000 would have been a small LCD flatscreen or the huge boxy DLP TVs
A 65 inch LCD tv in 2000 was around 10,000 dollars. Today you can get a decent quality one for 600
Posted on 1/24/25 at 8:18 am to danilo
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Let me tell you how much VCRs used to cost back in the day. Welcome to technology baby.
TVs, VCRs, Washer, Dryer, Fridge, Stoves. All used to be very expensive and in the 50s through early 80s were considered a major purchase for middle class households, usually requiring financing and the expectation that the appliance should last 10+ years. That’s why older appliances were well built and it was common to simply repair them when they broke rather than replace. Most couldn’t afford to replace them every 2-3 years like today
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